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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 08:51 PM Aug 2019

Most posters who urge that Trump be either impeached or removed pursuant to the

25th Amendment provide a long list of reasons---his outrageous actions and words---in an effort to justify their suggestion. I will not waste time with that.

It's not that such drastic remedies don't require justification. It's just that everyone reading this and about two of every three other Americans already KNOW that both those Constitutional actions are eminently justified; i.e., Trump is BOTH an incompetent, greedy, racist thug AND unable to serve as POTUS due to substantisl mental impairment.

I'm at "either/or". I don't care which remedy is used, but I favor whichever would more quickly remove him from power. If the answer is "neither", I say we don't know that until we try. And, if we don't try, I fear he will have won. Encouraged by our inaction, I think it possible that next fall he will simply declare himself re-elected by the "real" vote totals and refuse to acknowledge any contrary results reported by the "fake news".

Before you respond with a string of "that won't happen" posts, how many outrages of the past three years were pooh-poohed with those same words? Again, I shouldn't need to list examples.

How many incompetent or fascist droolers will be appointed between now and the 2020 election?

Will their be coal mines and oil rigs in our national parks by then?

Will 250 foot redwoods be sawed into lumber?

Will anything meaningful be done to slow and reverse climate change?

Between now and November, 2020, how many will be slaughtered by assault weapons?

I HOPE there is a free and fair election in 2020. And, I HOPE Trump will leave peacefully when he loses that election. But, I have serious doubts as to both of those.

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Most posters who urge that Trump be either impeached or removed pursuant to the (Original Post) Atticus Aug 2019 OP
He can leave peacably or not, but leave he will. marble falls Aug 2019 #1
I'm with you on this... he needs to be gone YESTERDAY FirstLight Aug 2019 #2
The saying is that "Hope springs eternal in the human breast"*. abqtommy Aug 2019 #3
"That won't happen" is despair propaganda EndGOPPropaganda Aug 2019 #4

FirstLight

(13,360 posts)
2. I'm with you on this... he needs to be gone YESTERDAY
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 09:00 PM
Aug 2019

It's gone off the rails and there is no need to list the grievances. Our country has become something I thought I would never see, and the fact that these MAGA-idiots wrap themselves in the flag and call us "anti-Fa" or "socialists" is feeling more and more like Germany 1938


I am even more concerned at the Congress' absolute lack of action... There was no need to be delicate, we all know he's a criminal. Shit, even HE knows it!

I feel like we are all being held hostage by a madman...

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
3. The saying is that "Hope springs eternal in the human breast"*.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 09:01 PM
Aug 2019

I always have hope, even in the darkest of times but today I'm beginning to see the light break through!

*Alexander Pope, from An Essay On Man (and women)-1732. The essay was written in reference to a religious theme but it applies to our fight against tRUMP, too.

EndGOPPropaganda

(1,117 posts)
4. "That won't happen" is despair propaganda
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 09:04 PM
Aug 2019

Did the right say “Kavanaugh will never be confirms”?
Did the right say “Citizens United will never be decided our way?”
Did the right say “We can’t force Florida and the Supreme Court to install GWB?”
Did the right say “We can’t get our base to vote for Trump?”



If you WANT something to happen, you first talk about it. You get others to talk about it. You organize. Then it happens.

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